We prove that a flow on a compact surface is expansive if and only if the singularities are of saddle type and the union of their separatrices is dense. Moreover we show that such flows are obtained by surgery on the suspension of minimal interval exchange maps.
Forced oscillations of a massive point on a compact surface with boundary
Suspensions of Bernoulli shifts
Geodesic flows modeled by expansive flows: Compact surfaces without conjugate points and continuous Green bundles
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